#lcf kim roksu

[iikisa]

Sum red dragon!krs content >:)

[lalasimping]

I just remembered this kind of phrase.

"Good people are always being welcomed by animals."

Cale feels like he's making a zoo, just truly means he's such a great and good person.

He's always been and will always be. He's that lovely as a person. I love him so much. Very.

[luckykittens198]

Cale was certain that he made eye contact with the White Star. He could not help but feel an odd sense of kinship at that moment.

.....

This person was from the Dragon Slayer household who had possessed all of these powers in the past. Was that why Cale was feeling this sense of kinship with the White Star?

LCF Part 1 Chp 334 "Who Are You?! (4)"

A sudden weird theory of mine, is that at this moment, subconsciously, Cale might have realised the similarity of White Radish's face to KRS. I mean, it's difficult with the mask on, but jawline should be pretty visible no?

Or maybe, KRS soul recognised that the body should be his?

I dunno, for all we know it was just because Eru-gramps mentioned that White Radish was a Dragon Slayer descendant🤷‍♀️

‘Am I Eruhaben-nim or Raon? Do you think I can speak in people’s minds? It’s not like I can just randomly shout, ‘I am XYZ!’ in the middle of the battlefield!’

LCF Part 1 Chp 334 "Who Are You?! (4)"

Pretty sure he has done that before. Or will be?

[freyadragonlord]

I found this meme chart and I SawTM them.

[birb-catto]

I am now well-rested but lost all my best ideas on this au (thanks, sleep deprivation). Have some wonky analysis instead:

Unlike Cale's other abilities, Survival won't leave behind a serious backlash (beyond selective amnesia) because it will be counterproductive to its user to survive and then succumb later to a side effect.

But what if. What if Survival has more long term aftereffects?

Like the paranoia we find comical in canon but is secretly Survival considering and putting forward some realistic concerns? The bad feeling Cale sometimes has that turns out to be right? Cale's fear and wariness around strong people who can potentially harm him?

One can argue that KRS had these prior to developing Survival, but consider that Survival heightened all of these senses to ensure the survival of its user even when this ability is inactive.

All in the name of Survival.

When Cale was Kim Rok Soo, back at the company, he never scared anyone. Sure, they worried for him, they feared his Records or they felt a subconscious chill when making eye contact but-

Rarely has he ever scared them.

Except the week he disappeared.

He got trapped underneath rubble, like his first meeting with Lee Soo Hyuk, but no one was there to save him this time. Three days, he was trapped; an uncanny parallel, maybe even more than a coincidence. But on the third day… something changed. He gained a new ability, something that snapped inside of him like a key that forgoes unlocking the mechanism entirely and breaks the lock itself.

He lifted a building off of its foundations.

The metal holding together the crevice he was huddled in snapped and groaned, while the rocks and concrete scratched and shattered like glass. He forced his way out and walked.

He walked away from the company.

If he had been within his mind, he would’ve gotten help, accepted food and water and healed his injuries.

He wasn’t. Within his mind, that is. He was strong, his senses had heightened to find food and all of his necessaries, but he couldn’t remember anything from his life as Kim Rok Soo.

Kim Rok Soo at this moment had fallen asleep, and Survival woke up. For 4 days, Survival walked, ate, drank, and breathed the life of Kim Rok Soo.

If you could call it living.

Eventually he was found, wandering and dirty, and seeing his team members let Rok Soo wake up, and Survival fell asleep.

Cale Henituse hasn’t had to do that. No, not yet, but time catches up eventually and Cale found himself in a perilous situation again.

Trapped inside of a collapsing building with no way to contact his friends who are expecting him to be back in 6 days. They were in a different world, so Cale only had a portion of his abilities, but it should've been enough. It hadn't.

4 days inside of the building, which shuddered and broke multiple times around him, finally, Survival opened its eyes.

It had taken longer because of Vitality of the Heart, but with all of his abilities weakened extensively, he had no options for escape.

Survival looks around dumbly. Within its own consciousness, it’s doing calculations. The structural integrity. The state of his body. The nearest food source.

Lifting the building off of its body is easy, but it takes several hours to progress its way out of the collapsing caverns. Survival breathes heavily, but doesn’t hesitate as it finally breaks through the side. The building tips over and crashes on the opposite side of where it is. Survival blinks from the impact, but only because of the dust.

It wanders for 3 days.

Finally, it gets found. By bandits.

It massacres them and steals their resources.

Soon after that, news breaks out about the supposed single-handed wipe out, and Raon finds him. Raon tries to speak to it, but after it deduced that Raon wasn’t a threat nor food, it walked away.

As a smart and clever dragon, Raon observed Cale before being so abruptly insulted. Multiple attempts to bring Cale back into those eyes, all failed attempts, Raon teleports the unwilling stranger back to the empire.

It doesn’t speak, it doesn’t respond to touch beyond a stern glance, and it only does the bare minimum to survive. It tried to store food under its bed after eating “enough”, and no amount of begging convinced it to not store the rations. It hasn’t bothered to use its powers either- like it doesn’t know it has them.

All attempts to speak are futile.

Choi Han even tried Korean, but it didn’t show any sign of understanding.

Rosalyn does research with Raon and Choi Han on what could have caused it.

Then they hear about the collapsed building. They hear about the bandits who had supposedly died a few days afterwards. Raon figures out that- yes- the stuff Cale had with him at the time used to belong to bandits.

A week after becoming Survival, days after being found, Cale opens his eyes on a bed.

“… They found me?” He muttered it so quietly, whisper soft, but Raon- apparently sleeping by his legs, jumps up with wide eyes.

“Human!”

Cale wants to sigh. How long was he asleep this time? By Raon’s expression, it must have beaten his previous records.

“Is it you? Is it really you? Say something! Say my name!”

Cale blinks in confusion. Two minutes ago he was dozing off inside of a dark hole that was close to collapsing, now— Raon wants to hear his name?

“… Raon Miru? Are you okay?” Cale sat up, ignoring his stiff body and pulling Raon into his lap. He seems to have lost a little weight?

“Human you must absolutely tell me everything you remember!”

While saying this, Raon was ordering everyone to stay out of Cale’s room with the exception of Choi Han and Rosalyn, as well as informing Beacrox to bring up food and to prepare tea.

Cale observes Raon, who is earnestly distressed for some reason, and concedes.

“The last thing I remember was falling asleep in a collapsing building.” Rosalyn gasps. She just entered the room with Choi Han, who is staring at Cale with a cold gaze.

“Why were you in there?” A chill runs down Cales spine at Choi Han’s voice.

“The conmen didn’t expect the building to collapse, they had likely planned something else. It just happened out of nowhere.” He doesn't say that he got lucky. He was next to one of the buildings main supports at the time, and the crumbling structure formed a bubble around him by chance.

Rosalyn goes pale.

Raon shouts, “I will destroy those bastards that made you go in there!”

“They’re already dead.” Cale shakes his head. Rosalyn covers her mouth. He hadn't said he got lucky, but it's obvious that he did. Did they almost lose Cale, and hadn't even known?

‘Three times…’ He’s been lucky with collapsing buildings three times now.

“Cale-nim…” Choi Han places a hand on his shoulder and Cale freezes in fear. “After the building collapsed, a bandit camp was destroyed, single handedly, a few days after. Raon found you wandering- with their stuff on you.”

Immediately, Cale figured it out. It must be an ability. He recalls the similar event that happened in the past and the dots are easy to connect.

But- he can’t say anything about that with Rosalyn in the room.

So all he says, is…

“I guess some part of me really wanted to live.”

[ciancy-an]

If one Cale isn’t enough to fight the Hunters how about 3 of them?

Three times as (self) destructive and effective…

[blueteller]

I have such a soft spot for Earth 2!Kim Rok Soo, you guys have no idea.

He's like an adorable, wrapped-up little bundle of everything I love about our protagonist Cale, just younger and a tiny bit less traumatized - but no less oblivious or self-sacrificing for it, mind you.

He's the stubborn bugger who kept refusing to call Park Jin Tae "the king of the shelter" (because that title should belong to its founder Lee Soo Hyuk), even if all he got for it was getting beat up.

He's the sweetheart who chose to sleep under a leaking roof just so that others wouldn't have to.

He's the guy who got to see his alternate self's memories and witness him saving his future, and his response to it all was basically an empathetic "Damn dude, your life sucks! ...Also I wanna beat up a god too" 😂

He spilled blood alongside Cale and his reaction to others freaking out over it was a confused "What's their deal?", because he's just as much of an emotionally stunted idiot. You never change do you, Kim Rok Soo?

I know he's a freaking 20-year-old man, but I wanna adopt him so bad. I wanna hug him and squeeze his cheeks and feed him an apple pie to make him less skinny and beat him over the head for being such an oblivious moron.

Please let him return in Part 2 at some point I am b e g g i n g

[skylerskyhigh]

I found a ref for the expressions and it fits the twins so well lmao

[simpshaaaa]

Kim Roksu's depressed episode

He's fine...

[makzee-51percent]

I think, somewhere deep in my soul, I need a reaction fic that isn’t Cales coolest moments or his most traumatic backstory but just where his family sees him. They just see what he used to do in his daily life.

I need them to see how he was casually treated, how he treated the people around him. Who he was close to. Who he wasn’t.

Or I need his family to see his mistakes, big and small, and how he overcame them so they can know how he comes to the conclusions he does.

I want his family to see the life he lived before they met him so that Cale can really be SEEN.

Because we know from the POV’s we’ve gotten from other characters that Cale is seen as this incredible person, this pillar of unwavering support, but I need them to see Cale when he wasn’t.

When he needed that pillar of support that he became for his family.

(Ao3 authors lock in)

[thegradus2]

Fantasy knight krs for possibly a genre swap au…

[iikisa]

Sickly red dragon!KRS >:)

[lalasimping]

i keep remembering how Kim Ruksu is rich but acts like a poor and when he turns into Cale, he acts like rich rich cuz he is rich rich fr. man is the wealthiest both earth and in another world but acts differently and still has the same goal, to have a rest house and farm quietly and remember that Cale has been working his ass off even before he becomes team leader, and I'm sure that people around the world give him lots of stuff and money for his skills and he's the type of person who won't refuse it and just probably put everything in a basement or smth also when eru asked him for money, the dragon itself was shocked at how nonchalant he is lmfao i love this man so much pls give him his slacker life, don't make him a god even tho it's quite expected...

[luckykittens198]

I am the adult. I am the guardian of these two children. I need to take full responsibility since I chose to take them in. I need the Super Rock’s power.

LCF Part 1 Chp 244 "I will ..... you"

Man, this part. First time reading it, it was like, he is an adult. Adult protect children.

Common sense and all that.

And then, after rereading it. This lines hurt so much. Imagine Child!KRS being so apathethic towards adults because almost no one helped him as a child. Knowing child him probably wished for an adult to help him.

And now he decided to become an adult he wished for for these children he took in.

Cale: I'm not their step dad, I'm their dad that stepped up

[freyadragonlord]

Rating korean webnovels' protagonists' reaction to meeting another version of themselves for the first time

Kim Roksu: 10/10, very polite and helpful, worked to save his other self's world while also being thoughtful not to mess up his life and personal connections Kim Dokja: 0/10 tried to stab himself Han Yoojin: 0/10 tried to stab himself

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

Cale isnt a cuddler.

He never had toys to fall asleep with, he couldn’t snuggle up to his parents after the accident and he certainly couldn’t with his uncle, and he was, most often, barely comfortable when he slept anyway.

So when the apocalypse arrived, he was the perfect person when it came to sleeping.

He didn’t move around, he didn’t snore, and he had already gotten used to falling asleep on shitty surfaces!

Jung Soo described it as eery, with the way that Rok Soo would get into a position to fall asleep and then he would stay that way for the rest of the night. His chest barely rose and fell, and on more than one occasion Soo Hyuk had woken him up because they were afraid he wasn’t breathing. Thankfully he has always been a light sleeper, so just moving around nearby would be enough to startle him awake.

They tried having a buddy system where they would sleep next to Rok Soo, “for his safety” but he would refuse and find some private place to cram himself into to sleep, scaring them even more. They tried to trick him multiple times, but Rok Soo never fell for it.

He allowed it one time.

It was a cold night, and Jung Soo was too tired from fighting monsters that they couldn’t get back to their company before nightfall.

Jung Soo had been barely coherent, grasping onto Rok Soo as he had been temporarily blinded by a poison grade 2 monster.

He refused to let go of Rok Soo, and so he gave in. He laid on the ground, curled up to Jung Soo, and pretended to be asleep.

He used his record ability intermittently throughout the entire night. It got cold enough to snow, and so Rok Soo had to be the fire for the time.

He never told Jung Soo he stayed up to keep him warm.

But that doesn’t matter.

Because now he’s Cale Henituse. He’s trash. He can sleep anywhere and at any time, but he demands a bed because he can. He demands comfort and warmth and safety. He always wants to fall asleep with a full stomach.

The others know this.

Except he can fall asleep easily when he hasn’t eaten. He can barely be counted as safe, ever, because of the White Star. He complains about the cold but they know he sometimes forgets to ask for a jacket.

The strangest story, however.

The oddest story?

Cale sleep walked.

Once.

Raon watched him get out of bed, and followed him to a nondescript corner of their newest house, where he laid down and stopped moving.

Raon woke him up immediately, and Cale was very disoriented and confused, but Raon didn’t care about the sleep walking. He cared about the stillness. Cale had looked as if he was hiding from a monster and could barely lift his chest to breathe softly.

Raon demanded to sleep next to Cale from then on, because he was worried Cale would get himself hurt.

Cale reluctantly gave in. He thinks about Soo Hyuk and Jung Soo, and thinks they’d be proud of him for opening up.

He casts that thought away.

(December 30, 2022)